Lisette Model
Retrospective
From 31 October 2025
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ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA
Lisette Model (1901–1903), born into a Viennese Jewish family, is regarded as one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers. This ALBERTINA exhibition presents a broad retrospective covering her most important groups of works created between 1933 and 1957. Alongside iconic photographs such as Coney Island Bather and Café Metropole, the selection will also include seldom-seen works.
Model, following her emigration to New York in 1938, quickly rose to prominence with her pictures for magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar showing facets of urban life: the poverty of the Lower East Side, the upper class at their leisure pursuits, and night life at bars and jazz clubs. Model went on to become an influential teacher during the McCarthy Era. The exhibition features the first-ever public presentation of the original draft of her 1979 monograph, a classic of photo book history.
This exhibition is on view from 31 October 2025 until 22 February 2026.
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Lisette Model: Singer at the Cafe Metropole, New York City, 1946
49.6 x 39.8 cm, Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
Lisette Model: Fashion Show, Hotel Pierre, New York City, 1940-1946
39.3 x 49.2 cm, Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna, Permanent Loan Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Arts and Science © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
Lisette Model: Lower East Side, New York City, 1940-1947
34.6 × 27.1 cm, Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
Lisette Model: Opera, San Francisco, 1949
34 × 26.6 cm, Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
Lisette Model: Sammy’s Bar, New York City, 1940-1944
37.8 x 49 cm, Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent Loan Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Arts and Science © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
Lisette Model: Reflection, New York City, 1939-1945
26.5 x 33.4 cm, Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
Lisette Model: Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 1934-1937
43,2 x 35,4 cm, Gelatin silver print
(© 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
49.6 x 39.8 cm, Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
39.3 x 49.2 cm, Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna, Permanent Loan Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Arts and Science © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
34.6 × 27.1 cm, Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
34 × 26.6 cm, Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
37.8 x 49 cm, Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent Loan Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Arts and Science © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
26.5 x 33.4 cm, Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)
43,2 x 35,4 cm, Gelatin silver print (© 2025 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris / Keitelman, Brussels)